Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-04
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Powderly's enemies are evidently "after him." It has been plain for long time that he and his companions have raised a bigger breeze than they are able to control.
 The city of St. Louis is refunding munici- pal securities which fall due this year to the amount of S4,3 ,339, GOO at 311s per cent. One reason for the success of the new loan is that the city is yearly decreasing it's indebtedness.
 In Albany the cottonwood tree is consd- cred such public nuisance that an ordi- nance imposes penalty of ten dollars upon any person who plants or fails to remove from his premises any shrub or tree of the species.
 The school officials of Boston have posted notices in all the school buildings of that city forbidding the chewing of tobacco by the pu- pills. They have even posted the notice in the Girls High School building, much to the indignation of the young women.
 Senator Stewart, of Nevada, says that in~ stead of cutting off the railroad passes of senators and representatives, as has been done by the interstate commerce law, he would give them all passes, and compel each man to travel at least 5000 miles a year in order to have them learn something about all parts of the country for which they have to legislate.
 Rudolf Hertzog does the largest dry goods business in Berlin, and he knows why. He spends $10O, ,0O0 year in advertising. He |, l.. x0 I1o cleared his expenses. The first year he spent 1 1000 marks in advertising, and his income rose to 30, 900 marks; then he increased the amount every year and found his profits in- creasing in proportion.
 If there are any members of the Sands family living in this region they will be in terested in letter sent to one of the family who had become impressed with the notion that there was fortune of 1000, 900 in England waiting to be claimed. The letter is from MT. Henry White, secretary of the United States legation in London. MT. White says: ''I beg to inform you that there is no such estate as the one you mention Vast numbers of people in our country are de- ceived and defrauded by designing persons, who represent that great estates are awaiting American claimants here. whereas there are none such. One of these rascals has recently been sentenced to five years penal servltude for robbing Americans in this way"
 General H. V. Boynton severely cTlt1clses the management of the recent prize drill in Washington. He refers especially to the failure to properly rebuke the Vicksburg and Memphis companies, which left the line during review because colored troops were in the line. They not only left the line in this insulting manner, but for quite dis tance marched parallel with the column, their band playing "Dixie," then paraded around the city and marched back to their camp with the same tune. On Sunday they repeated the performance. And not only were they not rebuked, but on Decoration day, when the troops in camp acted as escort for the Grand Army posts, these two in- subordinate and ill-mannered Companies were given the honor of leading the line.
 The Ceylon pearl fishery promises to be unusually successful this season, says the London Graphic. So does the mother-of- pearl harvest in the Red Sea. These latter fisheries extend the whole length of the Red Sea, but are most productive near Suakim and Massowah. Some three hundred boats are employed, mainly belonging to zebeid Bedouins, with black slave crews, and the men live on board nearly the whole year rarely being at home more than a month. They fish off reefs in the calm weather and can see the shells-at depth of from seven to